Gitana
Native AI CMS for secure, on-brand enterprise content
About Gitana
Gitana (formerly Cloud CMS) is an enterprise headless content platform that ingests structured and unstructured data, curates it into a versioned content graph, and publishes approved content to websites, APIs, vector databases and RAG applications. It combines Git-like branching, workflow-driven approvals and REST/GraphQL APIs, and runs either as a hosted subscription or as self-managed Docker/Kubernetes containers.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Git-style branching and merging lets multiple editors work in parallel and resolve conflicts visually
- Choice of hosted SaaS (US, Germany, Australia regions) or self-managed Docker/Kubernetes deployment
- Strong governance: per-object permissions, access policies, SSO/MFA and full audit history
- Built-in paths to deliver approved content into vector databases, RAG apps and Amazon Bedrock
- Multiple query options: REST, GraphQL, Elasticsearch full-text and MongoDB-style queries
- Long-running vendor (since 2010) that states it is profitable and debt-free
Cons
- Hosted plans start at $220/month, steep for small teams compared with mainstream headless CMSs
- Very few public user reviews, so independent validation is thin
- Enterprise feature depth means a steeper learning curve than simpler headless CMS tools
- Rebrand from Cloud CMS to Gitana can make documentation and community answers harder to find
Key Features
Git-like versioning
Changeset-based versioning with branches, merges, visual side-by-side conflict resolution, reverts and cherry-picking so editors can work in parallel.
Content graph and modeling
Model hierarchical content types, associations and validation rules on top of JSON Schema, then query or traverse the graph.
REST, GraphQL and SDK drivers
Access content through a REST API, GraphQL, or language drivers, with pagination, sorting and field limiting.
Editorial workflow and BPM engine
Form-based editing with auto-save, approve/reject steps, and a BPM workflow engine that defines the content lifecycle.
Scheduled publishing and releases
Publish between editorial, staging and live projects, schedule releases for future dates, and push to CDNs, S3 and HTTP endpoints.
AI and RAG delivery
Generate training data sets and deploy approved content to vector databases, private LLMs, Amazon Bedrock and RAG applications, with OpenAI integration and Sidekick assistant.
Ingestion and enrichment
Bulk import desktop files, SQL data and PIM records with automatic text and metadata extraction, thumbnails and auto-translation.
Search and query
Full-text search via Elasticsearch, MongoDB-style queries and graph traversal across all indexed content.
Rules and webhooks
Event-driven behaviors that fire webhooks, send emails, invalidate caches, or call AWS, Azure and Google services for OCR and text analysis.
Enterprise security
Per-object roles and permissions, cross-project access policies, SSO, MFA, encryption at rest and audit of every change.
Pricing
- Free developer edition
- For evaluation and development
- 3 projects, 5 users
- 100 GB asset storage
- 50 requests/sec, 1M requests/month
- Workflow, multilingual, scheduled publishing, versioning and branches
- Full GraphQL and REST API
- Commercial support
- 12 projects, 50 users
- 500 GB asset storage
- 100 requests/sec, 10M requests/month
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Single sign-on
- Business support
- 25 projects, 100 users
- 1 TB asset storage
- 200 requests/sec, 20M requests/month
- 99.99% uptime SLA
- Multi-factor authentication
- Priority support and additional dev tenant
- Unlimited users, projects and environments
- Dedicated infrastructure and job queue
- Multiple CMS environments
- Custom SLA
- Self-managed Kubernetes option
Best For
Governed enterprise content hub
Centralize content from multiple teams with workflow approvals, access policies and auditable versioning before it reaches live channels.
Curating RAG knowledge sets
Ingest messy documents and records, enrich and approve them, then deploy clean data sets to vector databases and LLM-backed services.
Headless backend for apps and websites
Serve structured content to web and mobile apps through REST or GraphQL with scheduled releases across environments.
Regulated content in healthcare and compliance
Keep a full audit trail and per-object permissions for content that must pass review before publication.
Multilingual product and retail content
Bulk import PIM data, translate it and publish localized product content to multiple endpoints.
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